Hyderabad: Target Composite Culture Again

Mustafa Khan

       Muslim scattered section of the old city, Konark theatre, Venkatadri theatre, time 7 pm Thursday 21, 2013 two bombs exploded killing 18 people and injuring more than 50; and a third bomb remained unexploded at a footbridge. All these happened within hundred meters from each other.

       It is eerie realization but true that the city had it coming what with frequent visits of Praveen Togadia to the city, Akbaruddin Oweisi openly and defiantly challenging the Hindu right to a face to face confrontation for fifteen minutes sans police. In this face off every one would hold breath in expectation as to who throws the gauntlet and who takes it up first. Zee News reported that it was the Indian Mujahideen behind the blasts. This is the preprogrammed automation reply. Doubts will be raised later and case would prolong. This is beginning at square one unless an early breakthrough changes the set scene. Beginning in default of the real.

       It did not take long to come. Chief Minister Narendra Modi asked his state ATS and state Intelligence Bureau ( the collusion of Modi and Rajedra Kumar of IB is known fact in many cases including the intelligence input of IB of Centre Government on Ishrat Jehan as terrorist)to contact their counterpart in Hyderabad. In all the fake encounters of Gujarat Hyderabad police colluded with the Gujarat police with impunity, be it the murder of Haren Pandiya, Sohrabuddeen, or even the Ahmadabad blasts. Police officer Narendra Amin not only was involved in killing Sohrabuddin/Tulsiram Prajapati but he also killed with his service gun a Maulana’s son when the Muslims of Hyderabad protested against the arrest of innocent people including the Maulana. Till today the Andhra Pradesh police have not bothered to make forensic examination of the service gun let alone question Narendra Amin.

        However, the police in Gujarat are on high alert and asked to keep tight vigil and watch the crowds, perhaps a hint that the planters of bomb in Hyderabad may have fled there as they might have revenge for 2002 massacre of Muslims in Gujarat as motivation. 

       The central government had on Tuesday sent an advisory asking all states to tighten security in sensitive places as Lashkar-e-Taiba, Jaish-e-Mohammad and Hizbul Mujahideen may launch attacks to avenge the hanging of Ajmal Kasab and Afzal Guru. This is also reaction in default of the real. Even the papers have several reports of the same nature. The Delhi police claims ipso facto that the IM accused Syed Maqbool and Imran(arrested in October 2012) had recced  the cites at Abids road, Dilsukh nager, in July 2012. That they had done it for Riyaz Bhatkar as usual in all the recent attacks including July 13, 2012 attack in Mumbai and the Pune low intensity blasts. (AA Feb 22, 2013)    
       There is more disturbing news of how the Gujarat police in association with the Andhra/Maharashtra police are doing its official work. To save Yashpal Chadda from arrest in Sohrabuddin case Nitin Shainai and Rajesh Ranjan had given 3 crore to  a cop Amitabh Thakur. This was paid ultimately to the CBI chief Kanda Swamy. Thus the undertable business in vibrant Gujarat and Andhra Pradesh went on.  What is even more  ominous, one cror was transferred to a central government officer. (Asia Express Feb 22.) Of course, Thakur and Kanda Swamy denied the charges. But interestingly a Home Guard officer had told Kanda Swamy, at Nasik that Vijay Neelkanth Pophale (RSS activist) had kept two of the bombers of September 8, 2006 in Tulsi lodge at Satana Naka, Malegaon, no heed was given to it. The lead was lost. Even in Malegaon a rich man Mahesh Patodiya had paid one cror 65 lakh for the blasts to a police officer the lead was not taken up for consideration. The police had called Patodiya and twenty Hindus for questioning but let them off. Even if this was part of grapevine there was need to investigate because the police had taken the Home Guard to Nasik specifically at the instance of Kanda Swamy IG level officer of CBI. Under the ruse of Malegaon terror attacks of 2006 and 2008 were subsumed under jehadi terrorism and wrongfully innocent people were accused and put in prison. In the case of the later attack after suspenseful lull Hemant Karkare did what no one had done before.

         The game of hunting for Muslims is again on. If Riyaz Bhatkal and Imran are indigenous terrorists then seeking their higher ups in Afghanistan and Pakistan is preposterous proposition. That is where the investigation agencies go astray. Their home work is incomplete and inadequate. So Indian foreign secretary on a tour in the US was less than indigenuous like the erstwhile National Security Advison MK Narayanan when the latter derailed the Samjhauta express attack investigation in the larger context of fighting terrorism in the aftermath of the attack on the Indian embassy in Afghanistan. Ranjan Mathai for the same reason perplexes others rather than clarifying anything when he says while touring the US: “Terrorism is and will remain a pre-eminent security challenge for both our countries. Our convergence on the source and the nature of the threat in our region has never been greater. It is therefore a challenge that provides us an opportunity for enhanced cooperation in combating terror and protecting our people from it. This is even more of an imperative today, as we move into a period of significant uncertainty in the next few years.” He finds the “source and the nature of the threat” in Afghanistan, and of course, Pakistan. And now you have it.    

       The third attack in Hyderabad coincided with the Indian Parliament going into the budget session and the home minister apologizing for his remark that BJP and RSS have been training Hindu youths in mounting terror attack.  The big question now is who mounted this attack in Hyderabad.

       Another big question is the source of RDX. In Pakistan RDX is easily available in the market, in India it is used by the army. So the terror attacks of 2006 have the provenance of RDX in the explosive substance seized by the ATS in the so called arms haul case of Aurangabad. Zabiuddin Ansari or Abu Jundal is involved, the police claim. But the man who reportedly gave him the Tata Indica in Aurangabad denied in the MCOCA court before the judge, SV Modak that he ever rented out the car to Zabi. This also came out on the day of Hyderabad blast. Who will now clear all this murk? Sushil Kumar Shinde said that BJP and RSS are training youths to explode bombs but now he says that he regretted it and the RSS says the he should apologize but Congress reasserts that Shinde’s accusation was based on facts!

       Whatever ultimately turns out to be case—whether it was really United Jihad Council, even—the face-off between Togadia and Akbaruddin gave an opportunity the deepen the gulf.